Foreign journalists honoured with Press Freedom Awards

NEW YORK (AP):

Four foreign journalists were honoured with Press Freedom Awards Tuesday evening, recognizing their work in the face of severe reprisals, including physical threats and imprisonment.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2013 International Press Freedom Awards were presented to Ecuador's Janet Hinostroza, Egypt's Bassem Youssef, Turkey's Nedim Sener, and Vietnam's Nguyen Van Hai, in a ceremony at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Hinostroza, a TV journalist for the private Ecuadorean channel Teleamazonas, was forced to take a leave of absence from her morning news programme after receiving death threats to her and her family over a report linking a relative of the president to a loan scandal.